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...that the roll of toilet paper you're using is made not of recycled fiber but from felled trees - often from North America's virgin forests, which are as rare as they are rich in wildlife. "The paper industry is the No. 1 industrial pressure on forests," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Using toilet paper made from virgin trees is the paper-industry equivalent of driving a Hummer...
...increase from the year before. We buy more bottled water than any other beverage except soft drinks, and soda's market share is fizzling fast. Water sales topped $10.8 billion last year--all for something you can get virtually free. "It's like marketing air," marvels Allen Hershkowitz, an industrial ecologist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC...
...consider the resources used to deliver a prettily packaged, fragrant little moisturizer or lipstick, it's no wonder that the industry's environmental report card has been less than stellar. "The ecological footprint left behind by the manufacturing and distribution of cosmetics and fragrances has been dismal," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Whatever the cosmetics industry is doing to reduce its environmental impact is welcome...
Countering the damage done by business practices through support of environmental organizations is one way to address the problem. Reducing the actual damage is another. "There have been some noble efforts," says Hershkowitz, citing as an example cosmetics-brand-driven recycling programs that encourage customers to return used packaging. "But it's not the disposal of the plastic container that causes the big environmental impact. It's the production of the bottle. The coal, the gas, the coloring agents, the heavy-metal stabilizers, the refining of the petroleum to make the plastic containers?it all creates a tremendous amount...
...political science and biomedical and aerospace engineering, curing cancer, colonizing space and, natch, becoming President of the U.S. The latter shouldn't be a problem as the young frosh has resolved not to let other students "bend [his] morals." While Smith was demonstrating wisdom beyond his years, MANNY HERSHKOWITZ was proving he was young at heart. The 82-year-old made his debut at the U.S. Open tennis championships in Forest Hills, N.Y.--as a ball boy. "I'm in good shape," he reports. "If they invite me back next year, I'll be here...